kindled against His people, And He hath stretched forth His hand against them, and hath smitten them, And the hills did tremble, And their carcasses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.
26And He will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, And will hiss unto them from the end of the earth; And, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly; shall be weary nor stumble among them; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken; 28\Vhose arrows are sharp, And all then* bows bent; Their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, And their wheels like a whirlwind; ^heir roaring shall be like a lion, They shall roar like young lions, yea, they shall roar, And lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, And there shall be none to deliver. ^And they shall roar against them in that day Like the roaring of the sea; And if one look unto the land, Behold darkness and distress. And the light is darkened in the skies thereof.
£ In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and His train led the temple. 2Above Him stood the seraphim; each one had six wings: with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3And one called unto another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory. 4And the posts of the door were moved at the voice of them that called, and the house was filled with smoke, ^hen said I: Woe is me! for I am undone; Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For mine eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts.
ISAIAH 6Then flew unto me one of the seraphim, with a glowing stone in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar; 7and he touched my mouth with it, and said: Lo, this hath touched thy lips; And thine iniquity is taken away, And thy sin expiated. 8And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, And who will go for us? Then I said: 'Here am I; send me.' 9And He said: 'Go, and tell this people: Hear ye indeed, but understand not; And see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10Make the heart of this people fat, And make their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they, seeing with their eyes, And hearing with their ears.
And understanding with their heart, Return, and be healed.' "Then said I: 'Lord, how long?' And He answered: ' Until cities be waste without in- habitant, And houses without man, And the land become utterly waste, ^And the LORD have removed men far away, And the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land. 13And if there be yet a tenth in it, it shall again be eaten up; as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they cast their leaves, so the holy seed shall be the stock thereof.'
*7 And it came to pass in the days of 1 Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to * That is, A remnant shall return* Jerusalem to war against it; but could not prevail against it. 2And it was told the house of David, saying: 'Aram is confederate with Ephraim.' And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.
3Then said the LOKD unto Isaiah: 'Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and aShear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fullers' field; 4and say unto him. Keep calm, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah. 6Because Aram hath counselled evil against thee, Ephraim also, and the son of Remaliah, saying: 6Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel; 7thus saith the Lord GOD: It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8For the head of Aram is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin; And within threescore and five years Shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people; 9And the head of Ephraim is Sama- ria, And the head of Samaria is Rema- liah's son.
If ye will not have faith, surely ye shall not be established.' * 10And the LORD spoke again unto Ahaz, saying: u' Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.' 12But Ahaz said: 'I will not ask, neither ISAIAH will I try the LORD.' 13And hesaid: 'Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God Lord Himself : behold, the conceive, and also? "Therefore the shall give you a young woman bear a son, and shall call his name aImmanueL 18Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16Yea, before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou hast a horror of shall be forsaken. "The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria/ 18Andit shall come to pass in that day, That the LORD shall hiss for the fly That is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, And for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19And they shall come, and shall rest all of them In the rugged valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, And upon all thorns, and upon all brambles.
20In that day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also sweep away the beard.
aAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a young cow, and two sheep; ^and it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat curd; for curd and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land.
^And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there • That is, God w vrith us.
were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall even be for briers and thorns. MWith arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. ^And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
Q And the LORD said unto me: 0 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it in common script: The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth; 2and I will take unto Me faithful wit- nesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah/ 3And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD unto me: 'Call his name bMaher-shalal-hash-baz. 4For before the child shall have knowledge to cry: My father, and: My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria/ 6And the LORD spoke unto me yet again, saying: 6Forasmuch as this people hath re- fused The waters of Shiloah that go softly, And rejoiceth with Rezin and Remanah's son; 'Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them The waters of the River, mighty and many, Even the king of Assyria and all his glory; 6 gfrfl,n come up over all his And he \ channels, And go over all his banks; 8And he shall sweep through Judah, Overflowing as he passeth through; He shall reach even to the neck; b That is, The apoil apeedeth, the prey hasteth.
ISAIAH And the stretching out of his wings Shall fill the breadth of thy land, 0 Immanuel.
9Make an uproar, 0 ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces; And give ear, all ye of far countries; Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken hi pieces.
10Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; Speak the word, and it shall not stand; For God is with us.
nFor the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, admonishing me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying: M'Say ye not: A conspiracy, concerning all where- of this people do say: A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor account it dreadful. 13The LORD of hosts, Him shall ye sanctify; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread. 14And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken/ 16'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.' 17And I will wait for the LORD, that hideth His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him. "Be- hold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me shall be for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion. 19And when they shall say unto you: 'Seek unto the ghosts and the familiar spirits, that chirp and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living unto the dead ^f or instruction and for testimony?7 — Surely they will speak according to this word, wherein there is no light. — MAnd they shall pass this way that are sore bestead and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and, whether they turn their faces upward, ^or look unto the earth, behold dis- tress and darkness, the gloom of an- guish, and outspread thick darkness. ^For is there no gloom to her that was stedf ast? Now the former hath lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but the latter hath dealt a more grievous blow by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, in the district of the nations.
O The people that walked in darkness ^ Have seen a great light; They that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them hath the light shined. 2Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast increased their joy; They joy before Thee according to the joy in harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
3For the yoke of his burden, And the staff of his shoulder, The rod of his oppressor, Thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.
4For every boot stamped with fierce- ness, And every cloak rolled in blood, Shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.
6For a child is born unto us, A son is given unto us; And the government is upon his shoulder; ISAIAH And his name is called aPele-j oez-el-gibbor- Abi-ad-sar-shalom; 6That the government may be increased, And of peace there be no end, Upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, To establish it, and to uphold it Through justice and through righteousness From henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts doth perform this.
7The Lord sent a word into Jacob, And it hath lighted upon Israel. 8And all the people shall know, Even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, That say in pride and in arrogancy of heart: 9'The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stones; The sycomores are cut down, but cedars will we put in their place ' "Therefore the LOKD doth set upon high the adversaries of Rezin against him, And spur his enemies; nThe Arameans on the east, and the Philistines on the west; And they devour Israel with open mouth. For all this His anger is not turned aiYi ay, But His hand is stretched out still.
the people turneth not unto Him that smiteth them, Neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. 13Therefore the LORD doth cut off from Israel 'head and tail, Palm-branch and rush, in one day. 14The elder and the man of rank, he is the head; And the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 15For they that lead this people cause them to err; And they that are led of them are destroyed. 16Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, Neither shall He have compassion on their fatherless and widows; For every one is ungodly and an evil-doer, And every mouth speaketh wanton- ness. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.
17For wickedness burneth as the fire; It devour eth the briers and thorns; Yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, And they roll upward in thick clouds of smoke. 18Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land burnt up; The people also are as the fuel of fire; No man spareth his brother. 19And one snatcheth on the right hand, and is hungry; ' And he eateth on the left hand, and is not satisfied; They eat every man the flesh of his own arm: 20Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; And they together are against Judah. For all this His anger is not turned away, But!
i hand is stretched out still.
1 A Woe unto them that decree •*• u unrighteous decrees, And to the writers that write in- iquity; * That is, Wonderful in counsel %s God the MiQhty, the Everla9tmg Father, the Rulrr of peace.
ISAIAH 2To turn aside the needy from judgment, And to take away the right of the poor of My people, That widows may be their spoil, And that they may make the father- less their prey! 3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, And in the ruin which shall come from far?
To whom will ye flee for help? ' And where will ye leave your glory? 4They can do nought except crouch under the captives, And fall under the slain. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.
K) Asshur, the rod of Mine anger, In whose hand as a staff is Mine indignation! I do send him against an ungodly nation, And against the people of My wrath do I give him a charge, To take the spoil, and to take the prey, And to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7Howbeit he meaneth not so, Neither doth his heart think so; But it is in his heart to destroy, And to cut off nations not a few. 8For he saith: 'Are not my princes all of them kings?
9Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? ' Is not Samaria as Damascus? 10As my hand hath reached the kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images did exceed them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; "Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, So do to Jerusalem and her idols?' 12Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed His whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks. 13For he hath said: By the strength of my hand I have done it, And by my wisdom, for I am prudent; In that I have removed the bounds of the peoples, And have robbed their treasures, And have brought down as one mighty the inhabitants; 14And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples; And as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, Have I gathered all the earth; And there was none that moved the wing, Or that opened the mouth, or chirped.
16Should the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? Should the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? As 3 a rod should move them that lift it up, Or as if a staff should lift up him that is not wood. 16Theref ore will the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness; And under his glory there shall be kindled A burning like the burning of fire. 17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame; ISAIAH And it shall burn and devour his thorns And his briers in one day. 18And the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, He will consume both soul a-nd body; And it shall be as when a sick man wasteth away. 19And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, That a child may write them down.
20And it shall come to pass in that day, That the remnant of Israel, And they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, Shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; But shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 2IaA remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, Unto God the Mighty. ^For though thy people, 0 Israel, be as the sand of the sea, Only a remnant of them shall return; An extermination is determined, overflowing with righteousness. ^For an extermination wholly de- termined Shall the Lord, the GOD of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.
^Therefore thus saith the Lord, the GOD of hosts: 0 My people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of Asshur, though he smite thee with the rod, and lift up his staff thee, after the manner of ^For yet a very little while, indignation shall be accomplished, and Mine anger shall be to their de- struction. ^And the LORD of hosts shall stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the Rock of Oreb; and as His rod was over the sea, so shall He lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 27And it shall come to pass in that day, that Has burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, And his yoke from off thy neck, And the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness. ^He is come to Aiath, He is passed through Migron; At Michmas he layeth up his bag- gage; 29They are gone over the pass; They have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeath-shaul is fled. 30Cry thou with a shrill voice, 0 daughter of Gallim! Hearken, 0 Laish! 0 thou poor Anathoth!
31Madmenah is in mad flight; The inhabitants of Gebim flee ft cover.
^his very day shall he halt at Nob, Shaking his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.
^Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Shall lop the boughs with terror; And the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, And the lofty shall be laid low. ^And He shaft cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
1 "1 And there shall come forth a •*• shoot out of the stock of Jesse, And a twig shall grow forth out of Ms roots.
2And the spirit of the LORD "shall rest upon hjrn, The spirit of wisdom and under- standing, * Heb. shear jashub.
ISAIAH The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD. 3And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD; And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, Neither decide after the hearing of his ears; 4But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, And decide with equity for the meek of the land; And he shall smite the land with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips shall he sky the wicked. 6And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness the girdle of his reins. *And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, And the leopard shall lie down with the kid; And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them. 7And the cow and the bear shall feed, Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, And the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den. shall not hurt nor destroy In all My holy mountain; For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.
10And it shall come to pass hi that day, That the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, Unto him shall the nations seek; And his resting-place shall be glo- rious.
nAnd it shall come to pass in that day, That the Lord will set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His peo- ple, That shall remain from Assyria, and from Egypt, And from Pathros, and from Gush, and from Elam, And from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12And He will set up an ensign for the nations, And will assemble the dispersed of Israel, And gather together the scattered of Judah From the four corners of the earth. 13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, And they that harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, And Judah shall not vex Ephraim. "And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; Together shall they spoil the chil- dren of the east; They shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; And the children of Ammon shall obey them. "And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; And with His scorching wind will He shake His* hand over the River, And will smite it into seven streams, And cause men to march over dry- shod.
16And there shall b§ a highway for , the remnant of His people, ISAIAH That shall remain from Assyria; Like as there was for Israel In the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
•J O And in that day thou shalt say: *-** 'I will give thanks unto Thee, 0 LORD; For though Thou wast angry with me, Thine anger is turned away, and Thou comfortest me.
2Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; For GOD the LOHD is my strength and song; And He is become my salvation.7 therefore with joy shall ye draw water Out of the wells of salvation.
4And in that day shall ye say: 'Give thanks unto the LORD, proclaim His name, Declare His doings among the peo- ples, Make mention that His name is exalted.
5Sing unto the LOED; for He hath done gloriously; This is made known in all the earth.
6Cry aloud and shout, thou inhab- itant of Zion; For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.'
"I O The burden of Babylon, which x u Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2Set ye up an ensign upon the high mountain, Lift up the voice unto them, Wave the hand, that they may go Into the gates of the nobles. 3I have commanded My conse- crated ones, Yea, I have called My mighty ones for Mine anger, Even My proudly exulting ones. 4Hark, a tumult in the mountains, Like as of a great people! Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms Of the nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts mustereth The host of the battle.
come from a far country, From the end of heaven, Even the LORD, and the weapons of His indignation, To destroy the whole earth. 6Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; As destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
7Therefore shall all hands be skck, And every heart of man shall melt. 8And they shall be affrighted; Pangs and throes shall take hold of them; They shall be in pain as a woman in travail; They shall look aghast one at another; Then* faces shall be faces of flame.
9Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, Cruel, and full of wrath and fierce anger; To make the earth a desolation, And to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof Shall not give their light; The sun shall be darkened in his going forth, And the moon shall not cause hei light to shine. nAnd I will visit upon the world their evil, And upon the wicked their iniquity; And I will cause the arxogancy of the proud to cease, ISAIAH And will lay low the haughtiness of the tyrants. 12I will make man more rare than fine gold, Even man than the pure gold of Ophir.
^Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, And the earth shall be shaken out of her place, For the wrath of the LORD of hosts, And for the day of His fierce anger.
14And it shall come to pass, that as the chased gazelle, And as sheep that no man gathereth, They shall turn every man to his own people, And shall flee every man to his own land. 15Every one that is found shall be thrust through; And every one that is caught shall fall by the sword. 16Their babes also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; Then- houses shall be spoiled, And their wives ravished.
"Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, Who shall not regard silver, And as for gold, they shall not de- light in it. "And their bows shall dash the young men in pieces; And they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye shall not spare children. "And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; * Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. 21But wild-cats shall lie there; And their houses shall be full of ferrets; And ostriches shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there. ^And jackals shall howl in their castles, And wild-dogs in the pleasant palaces; And her time is near to come, And her days shall not be prolonged.
~j A sFor the LOBD will have com- passion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the stranger shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and for handmaids; and they shall take them captive, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3And it shall come to pass in the day that the LO'RD shall give thee rest from thy travail, and from thy trou- ble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve, ^hat thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say: How hath the oppressor ceased! The exactness of gold ceased! The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of the rulers, 6That smote the peoples in wrath With an incessant stroke, That ruled the nations in anger, With a persecution that none re- strained.
ISAIAH 7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet; They break forth into singing. 8Yea, the cypresses rejoice at thee, And the cedars of Lebanon: 'Since thou art laid down, No feller is come up against us.J 9The nether-world from beneath is moved for thee To meet thee at thy coming; The shades are stirred up for thee, Even all the chief ones of the earth; All the kings of the nations Are raised up from their thrones. 10A11 they do answer And say unto thee.
'Art thou also become weak as we?
Art thou become like unto us? "Thy pomp is brought down to the nether-world, And the noise of thy psalteries; The maggot is spread under thee, And the worms cover thee.; 12How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 day-star, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, That didst cast lots over the nations! wAnd thou saidst in thy heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, Above the stars of God Will I exalt my throne; And I will sit upon the mount of meeting, In the uttermost parts of the north; 14I wiU ascend above the heights of the clouds; 1 will be like the Most High.' 16Yet thou shalt be brought down to the nether-world, To the uttermost parts of the pit.
16They that saw thee do narrowly look upon thee, They gaze earnestly at thee: 'Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, That did shake kingdoms; "That made the world as a wilderness, And destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?7 18A11 the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Every one in his own house. 19But thou art cast forth away from thy grave Like an abhorred offshoot, In the raiment of the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, That go down to the pavement of the pit, As a carcass trodden under foot. 20Thou shalt not be joined with them irx burial, Because thou hast destroyed thy land, Thou hast slain thy people; The seed of evil-doers shall not Be named for ever. "Prepare ye slaughter for his children For the iniquity of their fathers; That they rise not up, and possess the earth, And fill the face of the world with cities.
^And I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and offshoot and offspring, saith the LORD. al will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; And as I have purposed, so shall it stand, ISAIAH 25That I will break Asshur in My land, And upon My mountains tread him under foot; Then shall his yoke depart from off them, And his burden depart from off their shoulder. 26This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth; And this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. 27For the LORD of hosts hath pur- posed, And who shall disannul it? And His hand is stretched out, And who shall turn it back?
28In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29Rejoice not, 0 Philistia, all of thee, Because the rod that smote thee is broken: For out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, And his fruit shall be a flying serpent. 30And the first-born of the poor shall feed, And the needy shall lie down in safety; And I will kill thy root with famine, And thy remnant shall be slain. ^Howl, 0 gate; cry, O city; Melt away, 0 Philistia, all of thee; For there cometh a smoke out of the north, And there is no straggler in his ranks. ^What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation?! That the LORD hath founded Zion, And in her shall the afflicted of His people take refuge.
The burden of Moab.
For in the night that Ar of Moab is laid waste, He is brought to ruin; For in the night that Ear of Moab is laid waste, He is brought to ruin. 2He is gone up to Baith, and to Dibon, To the high places, to weep; Upon Nebo, and' upon Medeba, Moab hpwleth; On all their heads is baldness, Every beard is shaven. 3In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; On their housetops, and in their broad places, Every one howleth, weeping profusely. 4And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; Their voice is heard even unto Jahaz; Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; His soul is faint within him. 6My heart crieth out for Moab; Her fugitives reach unto Zoar, A heifer of three years old; For by the ascent of Luhith With weeping they go up; For in the way of Horonaim They raise up a cry, of destruction. 6For the Waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; For the grass is withered away, the herbage f aileth, There is no green thing. therefore the abundance they have gotten, And that which they have laid up, Shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
8For the cry is gone found about The borders of Moab; ISAIAH The howling thereof unto Eglaim, And the howling thereof unto Beerelim. 9For the waters of Dinion are full of blood; For I will bring yet more upon Dimon, A lion upon him that escapeth of Moab, And upon the remnant of the land.
1 C\ Send ye the lambs for the ruler iu of the land From the crags that are toward the wilderness, Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2For it shall be that, as wandering birds,